The school was selected to participate in the Student Signatures in Space (S3) program, which is sponsored by NASA. S3 promotes education about the space program through activities surrounding Space Day on the first Friday in May.
The school celebrated its selection in the program with a day full of activities Friday. Students learned about the planets, stars and space travel during their classes.
Students also signed a poster that will be converted into a digital image and sent into space as part of the October shuttle mission, said Principal Lonnie Melvin.
Jake Cox, 10, sat in his dark classroom gazing at a model of the Milky Way he and a classmate made out a string of Christmas lights.
Fourth-grade teacher Michelle Parker also used an experiment using soda and mints to talk to students about the force needed to propel the space shuttle into space.
"This really motivated them to consider science careers,” she said.
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Madison Elementary fourth-grade teacher Michelle Parker runs through spray from a Space Day experiment. Students mixed soda and mints to learn about chemical reactions. BY STEVE SISNEY, THE OKLAHOMAN
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